Ecotopia Emerging

Ecotopia Emerging (EE) by Ernest Callenbach is a fictionalized history of events leading up to the secession of regions of the Pacific Coast of the United States: Northern California, Oregon, and Washington join to form the environmentalist nation of Ecotopia which is said to have steady-state economy. In 1975, Callenbach had published a utopian novel called Ecotopia about the events; EE is the prequel, published in 1981. The EE story seems to take place in the 1990s; Callenbach assumes that the pro-business, anti-environmental Reagan-era policies—already evident at the time of publication—will have persisted in the United States after Reagan's presidency.

Ecotopia has been extremely popular and influential. Although EE addresses the question of 'how to get there from here,' it has received much less attention. On its release, Publishers Weekly reviewed it as a “young adult” book.